That's why her accent/slang bothers me so much - Kelly is absolutely my favorite. I love that BBC shows can have actors who are closer to the 'normal' end of the scale. Lauren Socha is a beautiful woman and probably more slender looking in real life - but she isn't the constant plastic stick figures I see so often on American tv. It's refreshing.

Their treatment of sex is also much better. I've seen pornos that didn't do it for me as much as few of those scenes.

I meant to say before, too, about Lost Girl. I found the ending to be not as good as I was hoping, particularly as regards to Bo & Lauren. I was never in the growing crowd who seem disillusioned about her choice to go back to Dyson - that I saw as more character rather than gender. Dyson was the first person to really help her, emotionally and physically. It's not dissimilar from patients who end up falling in love with their nurses. She's been put in situations where she has to trust him - that translates rather easily.

I'm pleased there will be a second season, though, because I would like to see more of Bo and Lauren and Bo and another female. I'm also incredibly pleased that the creator is dead-set on Bo & Kensie remaining friends. She talks about how a lot of female friendships are portrayed as catty or verging towards sexual on tv, and she's right.

Which made me think about the shows I loved most, and a good chunk of them had strong female relations that weren't portrayed as sexual, whether towards each other or completing over boyfriends or whatever. Buffy, tVD, are the easy examples and shows I love completely. All of which have female friends. I never really thought how rare that was.

Dear god, I cannot shut up. Oops.